Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lent picture in the decorations of the Doges Palace
is one to remember, and the fine work of Titian,
admired by Rubens, is one of the chief treasures of
Fenway Court, Boston. Other mythological pictures
in which young people will find pleasure and profit
are Curzons Psyche, bringing from Hades the casket
of beauty to Venus, passing with bated breath the
three-headed Cerberus (Louvre); Regnaults Autom-
edon with the Horses of Achilles; Watts's Orpheus
and Eurydice, full of tragic feeling; Atalanta's Race,
by Poynter, showing the fleet-footed maiden stooping
as she runs to catch up the fatal ball; and Titians
Three Graces. The Three Fates have been treated
by several painters, and one can choose between the
attractive modern pictures by Simmons and Thu-
mann, or, if preferred, take the old Italian work once
attributed to Michelangelo, representing the weird
sisters as rather fearsome old women. Of kindred
interest are the sibyls, so often referred to in classic
literature and mythology. Among the series by
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Alinari, Photo. John Andrew & Son, Sc.

THE DELPHIC SIBYL

Sistine Chapel, Rome

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